Update release workflow to extract version from tag and pass to build process

Author: BraisVQ

.github/workflows/release.yml

@@ -43,8 +43,15 @@ jobs:
       - name: Run unit tests
         run: make test-unit
 
+      - name: Extract version from tag
+        id: version
+        run: |
+          TAG=${{ github.event.release.tag_name }}
+          VERSION=${TAG#v}
+          echo "version=$VERSION" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
+
       - name: Build binaries
-        run: make build
+        run: make build VERSION=${{ steps.version.outputs.version }}
 
       - name: Upload Linux binary
         uses: actions/upload-release-asset@v1

Makefile

@@ -44,17 +44,17 @@ build: imports build-linux build-darwin build-windows
 
 ## Build Linux binary.
 build-linux: imports
-	cd cmd/tailor && GOOS=linux GOARCH=amd64 CGO_ENABLED=0 go build -gcflags "all=-trimpath=$(CURDIR);$(shell go env GOPATH)" -o tailor-linux-amd64
+	cd cmd/tailor && GOOS=linux GOARCH=amd64 CGO_ENABLED=0 go build -gcflags "all=-trimpath=$(CURDIR);$(shell go env GOPATH)" -ldflags "-X main.Version=$(VERSION)" -o tailor-linux-amd64
 .PHONY: build-linux
 
 ## Build macOS binary.
 build-darwin: imports
-	cd cmd/tailor && GOOS=darwin GOARCH=amd64 CGO_ENABLED=0 go build -gcflags "all=-trimpath=$(CURDIR);$(shell go env GOPATH)" -o tailor-darwin-amd64
+	cd cmd/tailor && GOOS=darwin GOARCH=amd64 CGO_ENABLED=0 go build -gcflags "all=-trimpath=$(CURDIR);$(shell go env GOPATH)" -ldflags "-X main.Version=$(VERSION)" -o tailor-darwin-amd64
 .PHONY: build-darwin
 
 ## Build Windows binary.
 build-windows: imports
-	cd cmd/tailor && GOOS=windows GOARCH=amd64 CGO_ENABLED=0 go build -gcflags "all=-trimpath=$(CURDIR);$(shell go env GOPATH)" -o tailor-windows-amd64.exe
+	cd cmd/tailor && GOOS=windows GOARCH=amd64 CGO_ENABLED=0 go build -gcflags "all=-trimpath=$(CURDIR);$(shell go env GOPATH)" -ldflags "-X main.Version=$(VERSION)" -o tailor-windows-amd64.exe
 .PHONY: build-windows
 
 internal/test/e2e/tailor-test: cmd/tailor/main.go go.mod go.sum pkg/cli/* pkg/commands/* pkg/openshift/* pkg/utils/*

cmd/tailor/main.go

@@ -11,6 +11,8 @@ import (
 	"github.com/opendevstack/tailor/pkg/commands"
 )
 
+var Version = "dev"
+
 var (
 	app = kingpin.New(
 		"tailor",
@@ -253,7 +255,7 @@ func main() {
 	command := kingpin.MustParse(app.Parse(os.Args[1:]))
 
 	if command == versionCommand.FullCommand() {
-		fmt.Println("1.3.4+master")
+		fmt.Println(Version)
 		return
 	}